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RAISING LUMINARIES

Raising Luminaries creates workshops, training, and educational resources for parents & caregivers igniting the next generation of kind & courageous leaders.

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This October we’re exploring and accepting loss, pain, and death.

Give your kids the tools they need for proactive mental health care, and they’ll learn not just to survive pain, but to grow stronger, kinder, and more compassionate through hardship.

Remember that everything here – I made this for you. Cause you are important and you deserve safety, health, and support in the work you do.

Take this next 15 seconds and stop thinking about everyone else who needs your help. Accept that you also are an important person who deserves care and keeping.

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I am a clinical psychologist working in the UK with a passion for social justice, inclusion and diversity as power. However, I had never heard the word Kyriarchy until today and am grateful for the education. Your writing has such passion and energy and I'd like to read more of it and share with colleagues and friends. Thank you.

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I heard you on' Parenting Forward' and I’ve been wanting to start finding some of your books for my 3 year old. I just don’t have much disposable income so it took me a while to pull the trigger.

But I feel like out of all the podcasts and Patreons out there, yours is the most important to me because I may not have much around me to become involved in, but it’s important to me to make sure I am giving my son the best examples I can. And books are powerful - so here I am finally!

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Raising Luminaries is founded & run by me, Ashia Ray – an Autistic, multiracial (Chinese/Irish) 2nd-generation settler raising two children alongside my partner on the homelands of the Wampanoag and Massachusett people. I support families and educators in raising the next generation of kind & courageous leaders, so we can all smash the kyriarchy together.

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RAISING LUMINARIES

Raising Luminaries creates workshops, training, and educational resources for parents & caregivers igniting the next generation of kind & courageous leaders.

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Social & Emotional Disability Gender Spectrum Asian & Pacific Islanders Anti-Racism Holidays Black Identities History Family Constellations Body Acceptance Indigenous Elders Immigration Activism Ageism Humor LGBTQiA2S+ Wealth Inequality Saviorism Mental Health #OwnVoices youth activism Climate Justice Faith & Religion Model Minorities Pandemic Life Speciesism Tokenism Interdependence Education generational trauma Unschooling Death Collective Action healthy masculinity Sexuality Latinx third culture kids STEAM By Age Multiracial Adoption summer Classism whitewashing

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